It has been a week since we found out that we were moving back to the states. I am still getting used to the idea that I will be living in the middle of the United States. I am looking forward to being able to visit friends and family without having to spend several thousands of dollars. Tomorrow is the Navy Ball and I am a little sad because this very well may be the last one I attend, unless there is one at Offutt AFB. The chaplin told me a cute joke about Offutt. Once you go to Offutt you never want to get off it...Get it.. Mike said he heard another version... Once you get to Offutt you never get off it. I think I like the chaplin's version much better. I just hope that I can find work. I enjoy what I do now and would love to continue doing so but working at an Airman and Family Readiness Center in the states is different. In the states there are not limits to how long you can stay at one center where as over here most staff members are limited to a 3 or 5 year tour so someone could get hired on at the states and never leave the postion. At a TDY in the states, someone told me that some director's love to hire people that have worked overseas at centers. I hope that is true.

I also have to think about an internship for next semester. I may do either FEMA course work or if my job is not extended past January then I may do an internship at the education center. I just hope that my school will be flexible.

This picture is from a TDY that I took to Norway in June. I would like to return here someday and climb to the top of Preacher's Rock.

Welcome to my blog. Thanks to Shelli Wilson for introuducing me to this site. This is much better than myspace. The big news here in the UK is that we know where we are moving to next...drum roll please.... Our next duty station will be in the great state of Nebraska. So I guess I will have to become a cornhusker fan, sorry Dad Wilson. This is how it all came about. The military family life consultant and I were talking the other night about family and I mentioned that we really were not that close with Mike's family. The next morning Mike and I were alone in the house, a rare event, and I told him that when we returned to the states that I would like to repair relations with his family. He then said we could do that if we went to Omaha. I thought for a second and replied why not. It would be for 19 months or longer if he is promoted and I have never lived in the Mid west. So long story short, he called the detailer (the guy that tells you were your next duty station will be) and he has a billet that he had to fill with a Joint Speciality Officer (probably not the right term), so we now have verbal orders to Omaha, Nebraska. We will leave England in October 08 and are supposed to report in November 08. I am playing around with the idea of leaving in the summer, so that Katie can start school at the beginning of the year. That about does it for me.